True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS